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Westheim, Paul

The Woodcut Book. With 144 illustrations of woodcuts from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Potsdam, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag 1921.

25.5 x 20 cm. 192 pages. Ultramarine blue original morocco binding with spine title and gilt box, cover with rich gilt lines, corner fleurons, title line, and gilt head edge. With dust jacket and in original slipcase. (Signed: O. Dorfner-Weimar). - "Produced as a special copy by Otto Dorfner," as noted by the bookbinder himself under the printer's imprint, and printed on better paper. This copy contains four additional colored plates based on old woodcuts, which are otherwise only included in the special edition. A fundamental publication on six centuries of European woodcut development. Immaculately preserved.

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